"i am the only one that got throughthe others died where ever they fellit was an ambush they came up from all sides give your leaders each a gun and then let them fight it out themselvesi've seen devils coming up from the groundi've seen hell upon this earththe next will be chemical but they will never learn"

Recently the last remaining UK veteran of the 1st world war Harry Patch died at the age of 111.I had heard a very emotional interview with him a few years ago on the Today program on Radio4.The way he talked about war had a profound effect on me.It became the inspiration for a song that we happened to record a few weeks before his death.It was done live in an abbey. The strings were arranged by Jonny.I very much hope the song does justice to his memory as the last survivor.

It would be very easy for our generation to forget the true horror of war, without the likes of Harry to remind us.I hope we do not forget.

As Harry himself said"Irrespective of the uniforms we wore, we were all victims".

We are very sad to hear about Merce Cunningham's death yesterday, aged ninety. Merce invited us to take part in his Split Sides project, in October 2003. It was a collaboration of music and dance, but one where each of the elements - set, costume,choreography and music - were randomly combined, to create a performance around chance. He was very kind and hospitable, and invited us around to his apartment the night before the show. He showed us his computer program which generated random sequences of gesture and movement for wire-framed mannequins, like Kraftwerk's Robots. He also showed us, the next night, that discipline and focus can create the space for an unexpected moment, when something new can suddenly exist: such a contrast to the scripted world of rock.

there is a compilation coming out for Mark Mulcahy, he of the wonderful Miracle Legion fame and so on.. you can read all about it here>>>>here pleaxsei have done a version of All For The Best with my brother Andy doing vocals with me!you can listen to it at the above link.